I mine altcoins with Middlecoin on my 270X (wanted a 280X but couldn't find one) and a CPU in a different machine. I figure the energy isn't wasted if I'd be heating anyway.

Last year I mined BTC with slush, mostly on CPUs. I made about a bitnickel before I couldn't complete shares and didn't need the heat. Actually, I still have about ~0.0027 that I'll probably never be able to claim because I can't mine the balance of a bitcent.

Offtopic rant: this is my third time typing this post. The first time I got automatically logged out. The second time I apparently hadn't waited long enough between posts. This time I'm copying my post before attempting again.

I mine with several. My first miner was my original NES. I used to play Super Mario Bros 3 in college on this baby. I modded it similarly to retrominer.

I also have a modded XBox overclocked to 2.718GHz. I cool it by immersing it in Fluorinert with a peltier junction on the CPU and a impeller forcing the fluid over the heat sink. The Fluorinert is circulated through our 3,000 gallon cistern to dissipate heat.

I have only been miming for about 2 weeks now and really just starting to figure things out.

My goal is to learn to solo mine with cudaminer. I know that nvidia isn't the best but this is just something that I would like to learn.

I do have 4 amd cards mining also.

If you are going to leave your BTC on an exchange please send it to this address instead 1GH3ub3UUHbU5qDJW5u3E9jZ96ZEmzaXtG, I will at least use the money better than someone who steals it from the exchange. Thanks

I used cudaminer and minerd to learn how it works. Have a couple of Radeons on order to mine Litecoin and heat up the apartment for the next several months. And will probably get a nice Lian-Li full tower while I'm at it.

Brand spankin' newbie. I'm mining @48ghash in a pool (See? Bet I didn't even write that right ;-).Been studying everything that's tied to the financials of bitcoin, from how it will effect the global economy to how I'll end up claiming it on my taxes.At the moment this is an experiment/hobby. Am I hoping to realize enough gain to deal with the pain of a large taxable event..heck yeah.

Sometimes there's more truth in forums than anywhere else. Twitter: @cryptobitchicks "I am expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously. To which are you referring?"

I'm new to this just over a month since I made the choice to buy the equipment for my first rig and only been mining about 3 weeks now. my first rig specs below running BAMT off a thumb drive, initially I had it in an open air case but about to try and fit it into a milk crate with extenders to help maintain a lower temperature. My second rig just got here yesterday and currently only has 2 of the R9 280x gigabyte cards in it hashing at 700-720 each. I'm waiting on some ASUS cards that are supposed to hit around 740 or so to finish out the rig. I've also fired up cudaminer on my gtx780 in my regular comp and it pulls around 400-600khs oddly enough this is only when I have an online game patching screen opened in the back ground. If I don't have it up before I start it it only hashes at around 140. So I've got some work to do to figure out why. Any thoughts would be great.

Been mining for over a year, and still consider myself new to this, there is --SO-- much to learn !

Luckily the mining community is really helpful and there is lots of resource out there.

Started mining BTC whilst it was still profitable with a mixture of cards..whatever I could get my hands on...5850's...5870's etc...

Then moved on to altcoins being mined on 5xGigabyte 7950's...totally the best cards I ever spent money on - £150 on ebay and a solid 650Kh/s with minimal tweaking. Now they are going for stupid money on ebay, so thats the end of that !

R9 280Xs are the next card of choice for me. Not sure which brand yet as there is still unbelievably little stock in the UK, so it will be whatever I can get. Just built an open frame 'carpenters PC' so will be filling that with 6 of these bad boys.

I'm not even thinking about my electricity bill. I'm justifying this at the moment by what I spend on electricity, I'm saving on gas for the heating of my flat

I've also fired up cudaminer on my gtx780 in my regular comp and it pulls around 400-600khs oddly enough this is only when I have an online game patching screen opened in the back ground. If I don't have it up before I start it it only hashes at around 140.

Could you elaborate on that? I would love to speed up my cudaminer.... However it does sound very suspicious. Online game patching screen?